Robinson Cano

Robinson Cano heard the jeers, all right. Circling the bases, not once but twice, in his old ballpark made it a lot easier to dismiss them. Cano snapped a season-long slump with a pair of two-run homers against his former team, Hisashi Iwakuma pitched neatly into the sixth and the Seattle Mariners held on to beat the New York Yankees 4-3 Saturday. "I just go to the plate and make some damage," Cano said about handling the Bronx cheers. Batting .249 with just six homers and 30 RBIs coming in, Cano has taken the brunt of the blame for the Mariners' subpar first half. But he came out swinging against the team he spurned for a huge contract with Seattle before the 2014...

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